Heading-hook.



D. M. SARKlSlAN.

HEADING HOOK.

APPLICATION HLED mm: 26,1915.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917,

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DIGKRAN' M. SARKISIAN, or scans]: Hints, NEW YORK.

HEADING HOOK.

Application filed June 26, 1915. Serial No. 36,433.

sisted of a unitary wire. member so bent upon itself that there is provided a stem portion having means whereby the stem may be arranged vertically and sewn to a piece of such goods and that there is also provided as an extension from said stem, and in the general line thereof, a hook of substantially an inverted U shape, that is, with the opening downward. The hook referred to is n practice utilized to engage'with the edge of an upstanding support, with the stem portion located between said support and the draped goods.

It has been found that in a device of this class wherein a terminal portion thereof is formed into an eye for receiving the stitches that sew the same to the goods, the application of such stitches is of very little use for any length of time, and a constant annoyance, and damage to the goods themselves, results from the fact that, due to the upward strain on the hook and stem on account of gravity, and also on account of side strain on the free leg of said hook when holding the goods, the eye quickly works free from the stitches, no matter how many such stitches are employed.

The cardinal object of this invention, then, is to provide a device wherein such an occurrence can never happen, and wherein the eye is so conformed, with reference to one set of stitches, and preferably with one only, that neither said one set of stitches nor the other sets of such stitches which may be engaged with portions of the eye, can ever slip from their appointed positions.

Such an embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation thereof, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the two views.

The reference numeral 3 indicates the i Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

stem aforesaid; and the. reference numeral i indicates the hook aforesaid, 4 is the bend of the hook, 4 is the free leg aforesaid, and 4 'is'the leg of the hook or U that is directed awayfrom the stem. Intermediate the leg last-mentioned and said stem, there is formed an eye 5 not heretofore mentioned, and at the upper end of stem 8 there is formed an eye 6. This brings us to a description of the peculiar conformation and consequent important functions ofthe eye, in connection with the object of the invention above specifically mentioned. In its present embodiment this eye 6 may be described as being heart shaped, that is, there 7 is provided in the upper arc thereof a centrally down bent or inset portion, .forIr'eceiving a set of stitches as shown at 7. This'set of stitches, as well as the set 8, and also the preferably present sets 5 9. and .10, are as aforesaid passed through the piece of goods gr the like indicated generally at 11 in ig. 1. i

It will be seen that with the set of stitches 8 in place, and merely the set of stitches? in .and therefore from escaping from engagement with the eye 6. In this connection it should be mentioned that with these unitary bent wire heading hooks commercially constructed by automatic machinery, the point 6 is in almost no case found to be completely closed. With the threads 7 thus anchored fixedly on the reentrant angular part of the eye 6, and with the threads 8 in place as aforesaid, the stem is anchored against thrust in any direction relatively of the supported goods, and consequently the sets of threads 9 and 10 are, or either of them is, similarly anchored against displacement, because the reentrant angular portion of eye 6 is bent down in a direction opposite to the direction of the strain of gravity on the stem when the device is in use.

Preferably the wire at the inset or reentrant angular portion of eye 6 is indented or roughened, to further prevent side slippage of the threads 7.

It will be seen that the embodiment disclosed, while of simple structure, may be as inexpensively manufactured, and with the consumption of practically a short a length guage used in the following claims is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the in- 'vention which, as'a matter of language,

might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim: I

1. In a heading hook of the class described, comprising a length of unitary material having a stem portion, a forwardly opening hook portion at oneend of the stem and having a portion bent into a terminal eye at the opposite end of the stem,

said eye having a re'e'ntrant angular portion.

2. In aheadmg hook of the class de-' scribed, comprising a length of unitary material having an intermediate straight stem portion and having at one end .a portion bent into a terminal eye for said stem, said eye having an intermediate portion bent into a reentrant angle which lies in the same plane as that which contains the eye proper and a forwardly opening hook at the opposite end of the stem.

'8. In a heading hook of the class described, comprising a length of unitary material having a portion bent into a stem and having an adjacent portion bent into a terminal eye for said stem, said eye being substantially heartshaped, with the point of the heart directed toward the other end of the stem and a forwardly opening hook at the opposite endof the stem. 4:. In a heading hook of the class described, comprising a length of wire providing a stem portion having an upper terminal eye provided with a reentrant angular portion, the other terminal of the stem being bent into an eye and thence bent backward toward the upper terminal, and then forwardly again to provide a downwardly opening hook.

5. In a heading hook of the class described, comprising a stem portion, a forwardly opening hook portion at one end of I the stem, and a transverse attaching portion at the other end of the stem, includingan angular part, the point of which is directed toward the hook and end ofvthe device.

6. In a heading hook of the class described, comprising a stem portion, a forwardly opening hook portion atone end of the stem, and a transverse attaching portion at the other end of the stem, including an angular part, the point of which is directed toward the hook end ofthe device, said angular part being indented or roughened.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DICKRAN M. SARKISIAN.

WVitnesses:

' I-IowAnD L. HOLLY,

J. E. Bnrss/ Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of I'atentl.

Washington, D. C. i i 

